Artist: Zhao Puchu

Date: Modern

Material: Ink on paper

• Object Type：
  • CALLIGRAPHY
• Location：
  • Zhao Puchu Gallery
• Tag：
  • spring festival drum lyric running script hanging scroll zhao puchu modern ink paper

In January 1979, upon hearing the good news that the 11^th CPC Central Committee had convened its third plenary session in Beijing, the seventy-three-year-old gentleman was so excited that he wrote these Spring Festival drum lyrics to celebrate the free and refreshing atmosphere in China. The lyrics extol 'the vast and mighty east wind bringing myriad hues of purple and red' to China and express the poet's heroic sentiment in the line 'the eight hundred million people, undaunted by obstacles, have their lofty aims'. These words convey the positive nationwide response of the Chinese people to the 'reform and opening-up' policy, and the calligraphy, executed with weighty brushwork and flowing momentum, reveals Zhao Puchu's calligraphic artistry.